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From what I've seen, Love should be playing over Odom. I get the thought of playing Lamar, because he's more mobile, but he's certainly not showing it, and his decision making isn't up to snuf. I think what you would theoretically lose in playing Love, he more than makes up for it in other areas.

The kid is just smart, and knows his role/limitations. Splitter had his way with Odom. He was getting the shot he wanted.

USA missed so many easy shots near the end. If USA makes a couple of those point blank shots they had in the fourth it wouldn't have been as close, but great game by Brazil regardless. Ultimately it is good for USA to be tested, good for the experience of the young guys on the team.

I now question if USA can actually win this tournament. They can only play Iso in the half court. They will get punished for it in the later rounds.

All signs point to Brazil being the second best team in the tournament right now, and we just beat them. Sure, it was a close game, and someone'll probably get hot in the elimination rounds, but there's just as much a chance that we'll play better next time, or that the US will be the team that gets hot.

Not saying the US absolutely will win the tourney, but they certainly can, and should easily be considered the favorite right now.

Yep, I'm not disappointed he's not playing, but honestly his defensive awareness is really poor, imo.

I know it's been discussed, but Danny's basically became just a scorer at this point, I'm not real happy about it.

That's not how he came up.

Maybe he'll change back to form if he gets a team around him in the Pacers, but with the last couple of years and now what he looks like with team USA, I'm not sure.

It's just basic defensive intuition that growing up in Indiana if you played ball you developed. Drives me a little crazy, really.

He doesn't make players around him better on EITHER end if he's going to play like this.

Anyway, thats as much of a rant as I can muster on August 30th.

All true, but it looks like if you don't play "D" for Coach K, you don't play. Maybe, just maybe, it'll rub off on him. (I hope)

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-tr...nce-stephenson
"But, first, let us now praise famous moments, because something happened Tuesday night in Indianapolis that you can watch a lifetime’s worth of professional basketball and never see again. There was a brief, and very decisive, and altogether unprecedented, outburst of genuine officiating, and it was directed at the best player in the world, and that, my dear young person, simply is not done."

has anyone seen the officiating in turkey-greece game? i started to ask myself "is this tournament in greece?" the official(jungebrand, this isn't the first time btw) did everything in his power for greece to win. i can't be happier we have beaten those fiba *******s(not greece team the guys that protect greece) fiba just makes me sick.

has anyone seen the officiating in turkey-greece game? i started to ask myself "is this tournament in greece?" the official did everything in his power for greece to win. i can't be happier we have beaten those fiba *******s(not greece team the guys that protect greece) fiba just makes me sick.

I watched the entire game and I didn't see it this way. In fact, at the end of the first quarter Diamantidis hit a three at the buzzer that they didn't count, even after seeing a replay that showed the ball left his hand before time expired.